Title: The Social Dimensions of Development Effectiveness: The draft World Bank Social Development Thematic
1The Social Dimensions of Development
EffectivenessThe draft World Bank Social
Development Thematic Strategy
- Steen Lau Jørgensen
- Director, Social Development
- World Bank
2An example from Mchinji, Malawi
3An example from Mchinji, Malawi
4What is social development?
Inclusion Putting people at the center of
development Involved an illiterate woman in
Mchinji
5What is social development?
One illiterate woman
6Assets and Capabilities for Poverty Reduction
Institutions
Well-being Poverty reduction
Social
Financial
Inclusive Cohesive Accountable
Physical
Human
Natural
7How does the World Bank do social development?
- Principles
- Inclusion. Putting people at the center of
development Providing equal access to opportunity - Cohesion. Strengthening communities so people
can work together for common objectives and
overcome divisions - Accountability. Developing ways for people to
exercise voice to authorities, and for
authorities to respond
8How does the World Bank do social development?
- Areas of activity
- Social Analysis
- Participation and Civic Engagement
- Community Driven Development
- Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction
- Social Safeguards
9How does the World Bank do social development?
- Social analysis
- E.g., how does opportunities for female migrant
workers change local norms and culture, how is
that relevant for development interventions? - E.g., what social norms about girls education are
relevant for achieving universal primary
education? - E.g., what is the likely social impact of land
reform in Cambodia or Zambia? - How is a country evolving on the principles, i.e.
tracking progress on inclusion, cohesion,
accountability
10How does the World Bank do social development?
- Participation and Civil Engagement
- In Uganda, support public debates of policy
changes proposed through dialogue with World Bank
- In Albania, support legal changes in enabling
environment for civil society - In Peru support publication of the Budget
- In Philippines work on accountability and NGO
enabling environment
11How does the World Bank do social development?
- Community Driven Development
- E.g., in Indonesia and Philippines, provide
resources to communities that take initiatives to
develop local development plans - Such programs are in 60 countries with a volume
of Bank support between 1 and 2 billion USD
annually
12How does the World Bank do social development?
- Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction
- E.g., help rebuild infrastructure, economies and
societies in Afghanistan, Congo, Somalia - E.g., carry out conflict analysis (Somalia,
Nigeria) to study drivers of conflict and
recommend policy changes
13How does the World Bank do social development?
- Social Safeguards
- E.g., protect interests of indigenous peoples and
involuntarily resettled persons, making sure they
benefit in appropriate ways from development
interventions - Traditionally main entry point for SD staff, now
about 20 of work
14How does the World Bank do social development?
- Staffing
- Recognized as sector group within the Bank since
1997 - About 140 staff (out of 10,000 total), many
(about 60) with anthropology or sociology
background, but very diverse - About half are in country offices
15Social Development Works
- Review from World Bank Operations Evaluation
Department shows that attention to social
dimensions makes projects work better
16Strategic Objective Accelerate the trajectory
- Heading in the right direction
- Portfolio that includes SD increased (to about
half) - Quality of attention to SD issues in other
projects improved (85 of good quality up from 75
four years ago according to QAG) - Strategic priorities to go further
- Strengthen policy dialogue and lending
- Improve project effectiveness by mainstreaming
and free-standing portfolio - Build on foundation of capacity building,
advocacy and research
17Increase Attention to SD in the Bank's Policy
Dialogue and Policy-based Lending
- Strengthen multi-stakeholder participation in
development and monitoring of macro strategy
documents (e.g. Poverty Reduction Strategy
Papers, Medium Term Expenditure Framework, Bank
Country Assistance Strategy) - Improve the social development content of policy
analysis, working from positive experiences with
Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) and
social capital studies. - Improve content of policy-based lending
- E.g., budget transparency conditionality,
enabling community groups to manage public funds,
improving transparency of bidding process
18Improve the effectiveness of Bank-supported
investment projects
- A more systematic approach to social development
and stronger follow-through - Improve multi-stakeholder participation to
include better sustainability and monitoring by
building into local planning processes - Improve social analysis including efficiency
improvements by relying on sector-wide and
country-wide work, e.g. country social analysis
and - Improve mainstreaming of SD concerns into
Bank-financed projects and project components and
nurture SD portfolio that is currently at about
8 of Bank lending.
19Improve capacity building, knowledge sharing,
partnership and research
- Align research priorities better with operational
needs by supporting research that - explores further the link between the social
dimensions of development and economic growth, - refines indicators for social development, and
- better evaluates the impacts of social
development projects. - Sustain advocacy based on better aligned research
and clarify the aspects of social development the
Bank will address directly. - Strengthen capacity building
20Overview
- Draft Social Development Thematic Strategy Paper
presented to CODE December 17 - OED Review evidence that social development
improves effectiveness - Support for operational principles that answers
What is social development? - Developing a business plan that answers How does
the World Bank support social development? - Holding extensive external consultations
21Next steps
- Finalize Bank-wide business strategy third
quarter 2004 - Dissemination after final Executive Directors
endorsement - possibly late 2004 early 2005
22Key Questions.
- Do you agree with the principles of inclusion,
cohesion and accountability? - What should the Bank do to promote social
development? - What are good or bad practice examples from the
Philippines, that we should learn from globally? - We need your help/advice
23I will not wait
- In a letter from Birmingham jail, Martin Luther
King Jr.wrote - How long are my people supposed to wait? Human
progresstakes the hard work of dedicated people
like you and me, working together to advance
human civilization I will not wait